That there are more than 22,000 unfilled positions within the municipal workforce has raised widespread concerns about the extent to which critical city services are being impacted. But the high …
Retired MTA workers along with a coalition of active Local 100 workers have strongly criticized the union’s effort to strip the retirees of their cost-free government-run Medicare. The …
To stop the exodus of nurses from the city’s public hospitals, the New York State Nurses Association is insisting on a contract that significantly closes the wage gap between nurses at NYC Health + …
Richard Ravitch, a former lieutenant governor and longtime civic leader known for his role in steering New York City through the fiscal crisis of the 1970s and stabilizing its mass transit system in …
The City Council, Mayor Eric Adams and federal lawmakers have all gone on the offensive to try and decrease the number of e-bike fires by tightening regulations and strengthening enforcement, with …
The contentious and protracted effort by successive mayoral administrations to shift retired municipal workers into a private Medicare health-care plan could get an up and down vote in the City …
New York is set to implement first-of-its kind congestion pricing for vehicles entering the city’s central business district below 60 th street in Manhattan next year, and the city’s yellow cab …
When Mayor Eric Adams stood alongside the presidents of 11 unions representing most of the city’s uniformed employees last week to announce a tentative contract covering 32,000 workers, he said the …
Citing a disparity in pay, the head of the NYPD’s sergeant’s union is cautioning cops to think hard about whether they should delay or even accept promotions to the supervisory rank given …
Just after 3 last Thursday, hundreds of office cleaners belonging to Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ, many their workday done, converged on the block just west of Bryant Park, their …
As Americans celebrate Juneteenth, which commemorates the emancipation of Black people from slavery, state legislators are considering a bill to amend the state constitution by barring what they say …
For the majority of workers across New York City, taking a paid sick day seems like a basic right. But for nearly 140,000 gig workers, it simply isn’t an option. For now. Members of the City …
The Adams administration has deemed the city’s contentious Medicare Advantage contract with Aetna registered, despite the city Comptroller’s recent decision not to register the agreement and a …
Eleven of the city’s uniformed unions and the Adams administration have negotiated a tentative five-year contract agreement giving 32,000 workers compounded raises of 17.77 percent over the life of …
The city’s app-based restaurant delivery workers will be earning at least $18 an hour, plus tips, starting next month following the establishment of the nation’s first-of-its-kind minimum pay …
To city municipal workers nursing a grievance, you can add department and agency managers. Without a raise since 2019, the city’s roughly 16,000 supervisors are looking for increases in …
For the second time in just over a year, city Comptroller Brad Lander has declined to register a contract for a controversial Medicare Advantage plan that would steer municipal city retirees into a …
Tiffany Munroe experienced the sort of workplace discrimination that is all-too-common for transgender people when she was fired from her warehouse job in 2020 after speaking out against the …
The city and the United Federation of Teachers have reached a tentative contract agreement giving educators at least 17.58 percent in compounded raises over the life of the 62-month deal and, for the …
Captive audience meetings, the mandatory sessions typically called by employers when workers are on the cusp of unionizing, would be forbidden, according to legislation passed by both houses of the …
Legislators in Albany passed the Clean Slate Act Friday, which will seal the criminal records of New Yorkers who have remained out of trouble since their convictions, providing them with a path to …
Firefighter Artur Podgorski, of Brooklyn's Ladder Company 108, was among eight FDNY firefighters honored at the department's Medal Day ceremony Wednesday for their actions, including a daring …
“We feel disrespected by the city because our loyalty is not rewarded with fair pay. [NYC Health + Hospitals] must do better,” Kristle Simms-Murphy, a registered nurse at Jacobi Hospital, said …
On Wednesday, smoke and soot from wildfires in Canada descended on New York, turning the city’s air quality into the worst of any metropolitan area in the world and pushing hundreds of thousands to …
Phil Martorana has spent 28 years handling packages inside of a UPS warehouse in Maspeth, Queens. During that time, he’s seen hundreds of coworkers come and go, UPS executive leadership change over …
